"Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

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“My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.”
“Disappointment requires adequate planning.”
“One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.”
“Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'”
“You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.”

Source : Le Corbusier (1931). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.203, Courier Corporation
“Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for that. If anything threatens Israel, it is this form of paranoid thought that makes us think: "Oh God, they're going to kill us in two seconds! What should we do?"”
“My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.”
“Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.”

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